It looks like he’s held on after last week’s deadlocked election, prior rumors of his political death notwithstanding. Longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been tapped by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday to form a new government. The longest serving prime minister in Israel’s history has now been given 42 days to form the […]
An Explainer of the Israeli Elections…
Gantz and Netanyahu Dig Heels in After Agreeing to Unity Negotiations…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured his religious right-wing political partners Monday night that he would stick to his pact to negotiate as a bloc with them, after agreeing to launch unity talks with chief rival Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party. At the same time, Gantz told his party members that he would […]
With 95% of Vote Counted, Israel’s Blue and White Party Leads Likud 33-32, Deadlock Persists…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main challenger Benny Gantz each gained a Knesset seat, according to the latest ballot count Wednesday night, but the political deadlock persisted, as their respective blocs still fell short of a Knesset majority. With 95 percent of the vote counted, Gantz’s Blue and White party was projected to win […]
How the U.S. Shattered the Middle East…
emen is a nightmare, a catastrophe, a mess—and the United States is highly complicit in the whole disaster. Refueling Saudi aircraft in-flight, providing targeting intelligence to the kingdom and selling the requisite bombs that have been dropped for years now on Yemeni civilians places the 100,000-plus deaths, millions of refugees, and (still) starving children squarely […]
Netanyahu Tells Voters: If you don’t vote Likud, Arabs Will ‘Annihilate Us All’…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming under fire again for anti-Arab comments made by his campaign, this time for a message on his official Facebook page telling voters “Arabs want to annihilate us all – women, children and men.” Israeli media reported that upon accessing Netanyahu’s official page, viewers are greeted with an automated […]
In Election Pitch, Netanyahu Vows to Annex the West Bank’s Jordan Valley…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Tuesday to quickly apply Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley if he is able to scrap together a new government after national elections next week. In a campaign speech billed by his Likud party as a “dramatic announcement,” Netanyahu also repeated his vow from before elections in April to extend […]
For Once, Sheldon Adelson Needs Donald Trump More Than Trump Needs Adelson…
Today in an unprecedented show of autonomy, Donald Trump fired the firebreathing national security adviser John Bolton. Bolton was gifted to the Trump administration in 2018 by Sheldon Adelson, Trump’s biggest donor, and Trump duly ended the Iran deal once Bolton came aboard. Now Trump has fired Bolton, thereby signalling that he is open to […]
Israel Accused of Planting Mysterious Spy Devices Near the White House…
The U.S. government concluded within the last two years that Israel was most likely behind the placement of cell-phone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, D.C., according to three former senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter. But unlike most other occasions when flagrant incidents […]
Facebook Sanctions Netanyahu Page Over Hate Speech Violation…
Facebook says it has sanctioned the page of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because of a violation of the company’s hate speech policy. Facebook said on Thursday that the social network had suspended for 24 hours the page’s bot, or automated chat function. The page had called on voters to prevent the establishment of a […]
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